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by malka 11y ago
> Sure, apps can be abusive and ask for more permissions than they need and refuse to run if they don't have them, but that's a problem with any conceivable permission system. The OS could give fake data to the apps. Such as a
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by malka 11y ago
> A programmer looking at the code for the first time will know, just by looking at the return type, "Hey, this method may not return a record! I'll have to handle that scenario." Well, that's basically the same thing
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by malka 11y ago
> Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee. You can't even to that now. Youtube videos buffer about 1m30 of videos and stops after that :(
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by malka 11y ago
I really wish we have psychohistory as a science someday.
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by malka 11y ago
Because it is cool to do so. And it could confirm some data. Actually, what would be a good reason NOT to do it ?
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by malka 11y ago
it's 40x from "faked condition test" to "road condition". And the "test condition" are totally unrealistic behavior on the road (such as 0-50km/h in 26 seconds) Most car are above the allowed limit in
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by malka 11y ago
The answer is actually simple: they cannot.
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by malka 11y ago
> between iTunes, Amazon instant, YouTube rentals, Google Play, Microsoft Store and your cable provider the movie is probably a $2-$3 HD rental. $5-$6 if its just released. That is part of the problem. If I want to watch a movie, I&#x27
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by malka 11y ago
> I thought the western justice system existed mainly to inhibit crime Personally I think the western justice system is more about pusishing crimimals than inhibiting crime.
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by malka 11y ago
Adobe photoshop has pretty much a monopoly. IDEs do not.
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by malka 11y ago
The price is not the problem. I simply do not want to rent the tools I use. I want to buy them.
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by malka 11y ago
Causality is needed as an axiom because if it does not hold, then it means that the result of an experiment could be depend of something happening in the future. That means that we could not have reproducible experiment anymore for instanc
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by malka 11y ago
> faster then light signal afaik, causality is still a strong axiom, so no.
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by malka 11y ago
Yes, but this could be used as a hook after a push on the git, so that code would always follow a certain convention, whatever editor the developper that pushed used.
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by malka 11y ago
and wait 'till someone figures out they can store ads inside commit messages.
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by malka 11y ago
Even if people were to read it, how many are able to understand legalese ? Am I supposed to consult a lawyer each time I want to install a software ?
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by malka 11y ago
If their review are as thorough as Android app's one, they cost about nothing.
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by malka 11y ago
This. I have no problem with ad per se. They are a annoying but necessary part of life. After all, products and brand needs to make themselve known. However, I do have a problem with tracking. I'd rather have ads that are of no interes
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by malka 11y ago
In my opinion, the difference between a mafia and a government is the same than between a religion and a cult.
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by malka 11y ago
You could also use F.Lux[0] wich dim the blue light of your screen at night [0] - https://justgetflux.com/
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by malka 11y ago
I have not seen a car where I can lock my key inside in... idk 10 years maybe ? edit : I meant keys inside the car but no one inside.
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by malka 11y ago
I agree that hey are useful. However, I do not think "having a warm seat" is worth connecting your car to an unsafe network.
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by malka 11y ago
why do you specify "embedded" ? after each hack, when I see that X company stores password either unhashed, or weakly hashed, the conclusion is that almost no ones gives a damn about security. and no one will until failing to prop
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by malka 11y ago
Actually Android is more profitable to Microsoft than Windows Phone itself.
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by malka 11y ago
funny, of all the routers I used (all were provided by my ISP), their IP were 192.168.1.254
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by malka 11y ago
The fact that "it works" is not a good argument imo. Slavery works to get shit done.
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by malka 11y ago
It is usually seen 'wrong' to unilateraly and sneakily violates the terms of a contract.
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by malka 11y ago
>There are many real-world use cases where, in order to accomplish the completion of a project, you need to provide an external resource with access to sensitive data for a limited amount of time. Well, then there are many real world use
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by malka 11y ago
That would go against the very purpose of a bank : privatize what you earn, share your losses.
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by malka 11y ago
Or you could simply free resource1 and resource2 even if the allocation failed. free(NULL) is defined to do nothing.

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